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The System and Mission Analysis Department is charged with identifying, developing, and applying new technologies that can address the Government's most challenging Systems Engineering problems.
This is an opportunity a Systems Engineer who is highly motivated, innovative, and proactive. This position provides challenging opportunities to apply and expand one's systems architecture, modeling and tradespace analysis skills. Specific areas of interest include practical application of AI, Systems of Systems, architecture modeling, modeling and analysis of complex systems, and decision support.
Roles & Responsibilities:
+ Work with multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop requirements, systems architecture and design models and more for both systems as well as complex systems-of-systems
+ Evaluate and compare alternative architectures using qualitative and quantitative techniques; exploring large tradespaces
+ Articulate and investigate major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties
+ Identify or develop metrics and tools to measure and analyze relevant system properties, such as robustness, resiliency, physical and cyber security, interoperability, quality, robustness, and maintainability
+ Support, define and improve requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes and tools with internal and external government representatives
Basic Qualifications:
+ Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
+ Ability to work with others to solve challenging technical problems
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adapted to a variety of audiences
+ Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: architecture, requirements development, trade studies, algorithm design, or modeling and simulation
+ Ingenuity in applying systems engineering and analysis skills with an ability to adapt and learn subject matter domains such as defense, healthcare, and finance
+ Must be a U.S. citizen with ability to obtain and maintain DoD clearance
+ Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
+ This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Knowledge of methods for assessing the impacts of emerging technologies on socio-technical enterprises or systems-of-systems
+ Proficiency with multi-disciplinary digital modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or socio-technical-level)
+ Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages for quantitative analyses (ex. MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, R)
+ Proficiency with one or more modern system engineering methods (e.g. OOSEM, ME), languages and frameworks (e.g. SysML and UAF) as well as tools (e.g. Cameo, DOORS) that are used across the systems lifecycle
+ Knowledge and experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques and algorithms
+ Active DoD Clearance
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$75,500 - $94,500 - $113,500 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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